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🗓️ 12 September 2024
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0:00.0 | Republicans are inching closer to gaining control of the Senate and they might have Montana to |
0:05.1 | thank for this. |
0:06.2 | I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, September 12. In 53 days, Americans will go to the polls to vote for not only who they want to be their president, |
0:27.0 | but also who should represent them in Congress, as in the House and the Senate. |
0:32.0 | Republicans currently have control of the House and Democrats have control of the Senate. |
0:37.0 | But some recent signs are indicating that Republicans do have a chance to win back that upper chamber. |
0:43.4 | For example, in West Virginia, independent Senator Joe Manchin is retiring and the current |
0:48.1 | West Virginia governor is a Republican, Jim Justice. |
0:51.4 | He's running for that seat in the Senate, and Justice is indeed heavily |
0:55.3 | favored to win. In Maryland, there is a tight race between former Republican |
0:59.9 | Governor Larry Hogan and County Executive Angela also Brooks. |
1:05.3 | There is also a very close Senate race in Ohio and Michigan. |
1:09.1 | The Cook Political Report tracks all of the swing races very closely. It's been conducting |
1:14.7 | nonpartisan analysis of elections and campaigns for decades. And currently, the |
1:20.2 | Cook political report tracks that Ohio and Michigan are the only two tops-up races for the Senate. |
1:27.0 | But that list used to include a third state, Montana, and just today, the report moved that Senate race in Montana from a toss-up race |
1:37.2 | to one that now leans Republican. |
1:40.4 | Senator John Tester is a Democrat, he's the incumbent in this race in Montana. |
1:45.6 | And he's facing off against Republican candidate Jim Sheehi. Sheehi is a former Navy SEAL and even though Tester has held that Senate seat since 2006, |
1:56.8 | recent polling shows that shee he has a credible lead over Tester. |
2:02.0 | AARP polling indicates that she has a six-point lead over |
2:06.0 | tester in fact. The big difference for Tester in this election versus his |
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